[Stu]

This is apparently the promo reel they made to sell the idea of the cartoon to the networks. It didn't get picked up, but here it is anyway.

[Lucky]

Oh that can't be real. Its too horrible.

Wow. That fucking sucked so much. I don't know if it made me develop newfound respect for the actors on that show and how they could make shitty dialogue and horrible characters work or if I'm just more convinced that the show is Whedon's worst work.

EDIT: Or maybe I just fail to appreciate how much wanting to have sex with Gellar can make me deal with her delivering shitty lines for a shitty character.

Still worst line to the vampire.

"There are scary things in the dark... dark things."

I'd turn off my horror movie if I heard that line. Or at least make sure I had a 6 pack to make the viewing enjoyable.

[Stu]

Huh. I thought it was pretty good and sat alongside the Live Action show pretty well.

Aug 2, 2008 17:28:45 GMT -5 Lucky said:

Still worst line to the vampire.

"There are scary things in the dark... dark things."

I'd turn off my horror movie if I heard that line. Or at least make sure I had a 6 pack to make the viewing enjoyable.

Uh, I think the line was meant to be bad, but not so much a "bad script line", as a "it's funny the vampire's trying to be menacing and dark by can't really think of anything cool to say" way.

[Lucky]

From the Youtube comments I'm in the extreme minority. Let it be said I have long thought the show was horribly overrated and that it was filled with annoying characters who I despised for being really stupid. Willow freaking out and ranting about Buffy being a vampire? Xander making bad jokes with poor delivery? Buffy being a vapid and obnoxious teenager? I'm sure it was just the characters I already hated turned up by the lack of delivery that most animation brings. I know that I picked up one of those Giles lines as something he would say but that the absence of a good actor with good timing made look like crap.

I was at best a partial fan of the show because while I saw some real quality in its writing, directing, and acting I thought the subject matter was largely stupid, the acting was largely shit, and the basic nature of teenagers fighting evil was handled horribly. If they really were THAT carefree and easily distracted they'd all be dead, and quite frankly those Watchers who thought Buffy was doing things badly and was ridiculous to let untrained teenagers into battle were 100% right. And given that Whedon's comic now has them as a paramilitary organization heavy on training, weaponry, organization, and communication as well as a pro-active behavior is basically (IMO) justifying all those years I spent arguing that the basic nature of the show was ridiculous and Buffy was a selfish and shallow bitch.

But if you didn't think that stuff and liked the show more than me you'd probably enjoy that clip.

Does it really fit well with the live action, though? Buffy leaps 40 feet in the air and lands on a thin guardrail perfectly. And she gets swallowed by a dragon whose mouth she pries open hundreds of feet in the air where she punches him in the mouth only to start free falling. I realize its a cartoon so it turns things up but that stuff was ridiculous.

[OpTard]

Aug 2, 2008 19:46:05 GMT -5 Lucky said:

I know that I picked up one of those Giles lines as something he would say but that the absence of a good actor with good timing made look like crap.

you realize that with the exception of buffy, all the actors, giles included, were the same as the show.

[Lucky]

Yeah, I figured, I was talking more about the animation vs the body language and the stuff actors can convey with more than dialogue. Voice acting simply isn't the same thing and you rely on the animation. Also, I'd bet that actors used to delivering their characters in real life form may struggle to translate that to animation, especially if they aren't experienced voice actors.

Which is why I suggested earlier that maybe I should have a bit more respect for the actors because if they could deliver dialogue like that on the show and not make me turn it off and think you're all insane for enjoying it then they're probably better actors than I give them credit for. I call the Buffy actors and actresses bad but they're at the very least serviceable and you need only watch a porn (or wrestling) to see how a bad actor can make very natural lines sound very unnatural. And cartoons tend to lean towards porn level acting a lot of the time.

[Demko]

So wait... I'm confused. That WASN'T SMG? If it wasn't, that chick sure did a great impersonation of her Buffy voice, because I would have sworn that was Gellar.

[bdoriginal]

I don't know. Buffy sounded least like her original actress than anyone else in the clip. Then again, I haven't seen the show in years and even when I did, I didn't pay much attention outside of the fight scenes. I was more of an Angel guy.

[Stu]

Everybody but Buffy was voiced by their original actor as far as I could tell. The Buffy one WAS really, really good, but there was just a teensy bit to it that made it seem like someone else.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_the_Animated_Series#Cast